Drilling picks up across the Perdido Foldbelt

AUTHOR(S)

Leonard, Anne; Liskey, Tom

PUB. DATE

January 2016

SOURCE

Offshore;Jan2016, Vol. 76 Issue 1, p40

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article discusses the increased drilling activity in the Perdido Foldbet of northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Topics include the small increase of activity on the U.S. side which include the planned explorations of oil industry company Shell and gas and oil corporation Stone Energy, the possibility for Tiaras-1 of petroleum company PEMEX to be the first deepwater well under the 2013 Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act, and the Great White discovery.

ACCESSION #

112458337

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